Virginia Carolina Tools, Inc. v. International Tool Supply, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
984 F.2d 113 · 1993
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Hooters of America, Inc. v. Phillips (1999), Sandvik AB v. Advent International Corp. (2000)
30 federal appellate · 4 district · 10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · At&T Technologies, Inc. v. Communications Workers · Prima Paint Corp. v. Flood & Conklin Mfg. Co. · Doran v. Salem Inn, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no incipient issue of contract duration in the parties' memorialized agreement, hence no built-in likelihood of dispute over its duration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all disputes concerning the arbitrability of particular disputes under this contract are hereby committed to arbitration,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carson v. Giant Food, Inc. · Carson“[T]he general policy-based, federal presumption in favor of arbitration ... is not applied as a rule of contract interpretation to resolve questions of the arbitrability of arbitrability issues themselves.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carson
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.